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Updated over 8 years ago,
Name Connotation of Developaholic.com
Hello BiggerPockets community
I have listened most of the BP podcasts and went through all of the 2012 summit and several books. in last 2-3 month in all of my time free from full-time job.
Disclaimer: I haven't done a single deal yet (other than our family bought Los Angeles home in 2010)
I am coming to a realization that this flipping/wholesaling/investing/developing business will be:
"GO BIG OR GO HOME" for me
And therefore want to create unique brand name, not associated with my name or a specific location, (although I do like the name trump.com and want 5+ kids haha. My last name is too complicated)
Since English is not my first language and I started learning American culture only from 2009, everyone's opinion would be appreciated
What do you think about the name
BEFORE READING MY REASONING PLEASE FORM AN OPINION OF FIRST IMPRESSION
Firstly
I understand that "RE Developer" has a stigma to it. (from general masses)
Someone who is recklessly destroying all the "historical" neighborhoods and building huge new properties while smoking cigars and playing poker on a beach
While "-aholic" has stigma of obsession
Where a person has no life and is consumed by let's say work (like in workaholic) but we also can say that it is a hard working person (at least in Russian Workaholic can be used in a good and bad way. Is it the same in English?)
On the bright-side the beauty is that Develop and -aholic cancel out each other negatives and create a positive picture of a person working hard to create something new. (or is it wishful thinking?)
Secondly
Sellers and passive private investors etc. would have subconscious signal to stay out of this difficult work, and just offload all the headache to Developaholic
Last But Not Least
As Most of the BiggerPockets people know developing is a very good thing , whether you are developing Properties, Self, Relationships, Portfolio, Network, Brand, Values, and/or etc. Everything has to grow or perish, and therefore the name is all encompassing which is great for the spread of the brand in the future. Develop can be used pretty much on anything (trying to avoid major rebranding in the future.)
Disclaimer - last 3 month (AFTER finishing University) I have been obsessed with learning and realizing that I can learn way more valuable information on my own. You can say I have been obsessed with self development and hope it stays that way forever hence, www.Developaholic.com
I would be honored to hear some Constructive-Destructive-Supportive and Brutally Honest Criticism from as many people as possible, but please don't just say I overthink this.
Thank you
P.S. Google trends Showed that "Aholic" is more common than "Oholic" but I got both domains in case people spell it with "O"